2nd Wife: Dora Winifred, MBE author of The Right to be Happy pulished in 1927, she was the daughter of Sir Frederick Black. They had one son and one daughter. Married in 1921, marriage dissolved in 1935.

3rd Wife: Patricia Helen Spence, they had one son. Married in 1936, marriage dissolved in 1925

4th Wife: Edith Finch, daughter of Edward Bronson Finch of New York.

His contract with City College New York was terminated in 1940 on grounds that he was an enemy of religion and morality, he won substantial damages for wrongful dismissal.

He returned to England after WWII and was honoured with an OM, he gave the first BBC Reith Lectures in 1949.

He became involved in CND from 1949, he was involved in the Committee of 100 undertaking correspondence with world leaders on his views